Cleaner air, please
Millions in fines and millions more to be spent on pollution and control equipment at power plants and refineries. Emission over the next decade reduced by hundreds of thousands of tons. Those are
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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Fever kills scores in Southeast Asia
The World Health Organisation issued a call for urgent action after outbreaks of dengue fever in the South Pacific and Southeast Asia that have killed at least 340 people this year. High temperatures
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Experts cast doubt on value of approved stem cells
At least one-third of the 64 embryonic stem cell colonies approved for funding under a new Bush administration policy are so young and fragile that it is unclear whether they will ever prove useful
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Suit over diluted cancer drug
Cancer patients and their families have filed lawsuits against Eli Lilly & Co., alleging that the pharmaceutical manufacturer should have told US authorities about suspicion that a pharmacist in
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Biotech firm in the stem cell spotlight
Until this week, CyThera Inc. was a little known biotechnology company. But CyThera found itself in the spotlight after a list released by the U.S. National Institutes of Health showed that the
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Blood substitute clears key hurdle
Biopure Corp. has announced that its manufactured substitute for human blood has met the major safety targets set by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in a crucial clinical trial. As a result,
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Brazil to revoke Roche patent
The health minister of Brazil has moved to strip Roche Holding AG's patent on the AIDS drug nelfinavir after negotiations failed to lower the price.
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Tobacco lures world's teens
Just as it is in the United States, giving cigarettes to teenagers is illegal in many countries, including Albania. But while the practice has all but disappeared in America, it goes on in many
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Cell mix of mice and men may be flaw in Bush plan
Most or all of the human embryonic stem cell colonies approved for research funding by the U.S. government have been mixed in the laboratory with mouse cells, which may create substantial hurdles for
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China links blood sales to HIV 'epidemic'
After years of public silence and denials, China's Health Ministry acknowledged that nearly as many Chinese have been infected with the AIDS virus by selling their blood to private and government